Kant And The Question Of Theology

Author : Chris L. Firestone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107116813
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and the Question of Theology written by Chris L. Firestone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant scholars and analytic philosophers use varied perspectives to address problems surrounding Kant's theories of God and religion.

Author : Christopher J. Insole
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467445274
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intolerable God written by Christopher J. Insole and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thought of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is often regarded as having caused a crisis for theology and religion because it sets the limits of knowledge to what can be derived from experience. In The Intolerable God Christopher Insole challenges that assumption and argues that Kant believed in God but struggled intensely with theological questions. Drawing on a new wave of Kant research and texts from all periods of Kant’s thought — including some texts not previously translated — Insole recounts the drama of Kant’s intellectual and theological journey. He focuses on Kant’s lifelong concern with God, freedom, and happiness, relating these topics to Kant’s theory of knowledge and his shifting views about what metaphysics can achieve. Though Kant was, in the end, unable to accept central claims of the Christian faith, Insole here shows that he earnestly wrestled with issues that are still deeply unsettling for believers and doubters alike.

Author : CHRIS L. FIRESTONE;NATHAN A. JACOBS;JAMES H. JOINE.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781108524063
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and the Question of Theology written by CHRIS L. FIRESTONE;NATHAN A. JACOBS;JAMES H. JOINE. and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is a problematic idea in Kant's terms, but many scholars continue to be interested in Kantian theories of religion and the issues that they raise. In these new essays, scholars both within and outside Kant studies analyse Kant's writings and his claims about natural, philosophical, and revealed theology. Topics debated include arguments for the existence of God, natural theology, redemption, divine action, miracles, revelation, and life after death. The volume includes careful examination of key Kantian texts alongside discussion of their themes from both constructive and analytic perspectives. These contributions broaden the scope of the scholarship on Kant, exploring the value of doing theology in consonance or conversation with Kant. It builds bridges across divides that often separate the analytic from the continental and the philosophical from the theological. The resulting volume clarifies the significance and relevance of Kant's theology for current debates about the philosophy of God and religion.

Author : Bernard M.G. Reardon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134908395X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant as Philosophical Theologian written by Bernard M.G. Reardon and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-07-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to present Kant as a theological thinker. His critical philosophy was not only destructive of 'natural' theology, with its attempt to prove divine existence by logical argument, it also left no room for 'revelation' in the traditional sense. Yet Kant himself, who was brought up in Lutheran pietism, certainly believed in God, and could fairly be described as a religious man. But he held that religion can be based only on the moral consciousness, and in his last major work, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone - discussed here in detail - he interpreted Christianity purely in terms of moral symbolism. It would be no exaggeration to claim that Kant's influence has been decisive for modern theology.

Author : Christopher J. Insole
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019259494X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and the Divine written by Christopher J. Insole and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a definitive study of the development of Kant's conception of the highest good, from his earliest work, to his dying days. Insole argues that Kant believes in God, but that Kant is not a Christian, and that this opens up an important and neglected dimension of Western Philosophy. Kant is not a Christian, because he cannot accept Christianity's traditional claims about the relationship between divine action, grace, human freedom and happiness. Christian theologians who continue to affirm these traditional claims (and many do), therefore have grounds to be suspicious of Kant as an interpreter of Christian doctrine. As well as setting out a theological critique of Kant, Insole offers a new defence of the power, beauty, and internal coherence of Kant's non-Christian philosophical religiosity, 'within the limits of reason alone', which reason itself has some divine features. This neglected strand of philosophical religiosity deserves to be engaged with by both philosophers, and theologians. The Kant revealed in this book reminds us of a perennial task of philosophy, going back to Plato, where philosophy is construed as a way of life, oriented towards happiness, achieved through a properly expansive conception of reason and happiness. When we understand this philosophical religiosity, many standard 'problems' in the interpretation of Kant can be seen in a new light, and resolved. Kant witnesses to a strand of philosophy that leans into the category of the divine, at the edges of what we can say about reason, freedom, autonomy, and happiness.

Author : Chris L. Firestone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781108522571
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and the Question of Theology written by Chris L. Firestone and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris L. Firestone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317109686
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and Theology at the Boundaries of Reason written by Chris L. Firestone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the transcendental dimension of Kant's philosophy as a positive resource for theology. Firestone shows that Kant's philosophy establishes three distinct grounds for transcendental theology and then evaluates the form and content of theology that emerges when Christian theologians adopt these grounds. To understand Kant's philosophy as a completed process, Firestone argues, theologians must go beyond the strictures of Kant's critical philosophy proper and consider in its fullness the transcendental significance of what Kant calls 'rational religious faith'. This movement takes us into the promising but highly treacherous waters of Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason to understand theology at the transcendental bounds of reason.

Author : Christopher J. Insole
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199677603
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and the Creation of Freedom written by Christopher J. Insole and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant is a key thinker in the emergence of our contemporary sense of what 'human freedom' is, and why it is important. This book shows that important features of Kant's philosophy were forged out of difficulties he had in reconciling his belief in God as creator with the concept of human freedom.

Author : Robert A. Hand
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666733741
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presupposing God written by Robert A. Hand and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely recognized that Immanuel Kant was one of Karl Barth’s most important intellectual influences, but how and to what extent this is the case remains an open question. In Presupposing God, Robert Hand demonstrates a deep consistency between Kant’s and Barth’s theological epistemologies, with this issue in mind. After arguing for a number of positive emphases in Kant’s critical philosophy and religious epistemology in conversation with modern Kant scholarship, Presupposing God demonstrates how these emphases were obscured in Kant’s reception in the decades between Kant and Barth, and then explores the intellectual conditions under which Barth first encountered Kant. The argument proceeds to show how Barth wrestled with these varying interpretations and continued to utilize Kant with increased sophistication as his thought developed across the Romans commentaries, Anselm, and the Church Dogmatics. Presupposing God suggests that Kant can be an asset to theology, rather than the liability he is often taken to be, and that Barth is one of the better available examples of this in practice.

Author : Edward Kanterian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351395815
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant, God and Metaphysics written by Edward Kanterian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant is widely acknowledged as the greatest philosopher of modern times. He undertook his famous critical turn to save human freedom and morality from the challenge of determinism and materialism. Intertwined with his metaphysical interests, however, he also had theological commitments, which have received insufficient attention. He believed that man is a fallen creature and in need of ‘redemption’. He intended to provide a fortress protecting religious faith from the failure of rationalist metaphysics, from the atheistic strands of the Enlightenment, from the new mathematical science of nature, and from the dilemmas of Christian theology itself. Kant was an epistemologist, a philosopher of mind, a metaphysician of experience, an ethicist and a philosopher of religion. But all this was sustained by his religious faith. This book aims to recover the focal point and inner contradictions of his thought, the ‘secret thorn’ of his metaphysics (as Heidegger once put it). It first locates Kant in the tradition of reflection on the human weakness from Luther to Hume, and then engages in a critical, but charitable, manner with Kant’s entire pre-critical work, including his posthumous fragments. Special attention is given to The Only Possible Ground (1763), one of the most difficult, interesting and underestimated of Kant’s works. The present book takes its cue from an older approach to Kant, but also engages with recent Anglophone and continental scholarship, and deploys modern analytical tools to make sense of Kant. What emerges is an innovative and thought-provoking interpretation of Kant’s metaphysics, set against the background of forgotten religious aspects of European philosophy.